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Fisher Daniel
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  • Birth  26 Feb 1650  Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  15 AUG 2009 10:28:43 GMT-5 
    Died  17 Nov 1713  Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried  Parish Burial Ground Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID  I4758  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Fisher Daniel,   b. Abt 1619, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Oct 1683 
    Mother  Marette or Marriott or Marriot or Marryott Abigail,   b. 02 Jan 1617,   d. 11 Oct 1683 
    Married  16 Nov 1641 
    Family ID  F1965  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Fuller Mary,   b. 26 Mar 1655, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Mar 1726 
    Married  19 Jan 1675  Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Fisher Mary,   b. 27 Sep 1676, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Apr 1752
     2. Fisher Nathaniel,   b. 05 Apr 1687, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1777
    Family ID  F1963  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • 25. DANIEL4, son of Captain Daniel (11) and Abigail (Marriott) Fisher, was b. in Dedham, Feb. 26, 1650; m. there, Jan. 19, 1675, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Flower) Fuller,of Dedham, who wasb. there March 26, 1655. (Dedham Register, vol. IV, p. 159.) The first mention of Daniel in the Dedham Town Records is as follows : "En Dani Fisher is creditor to the Towne for his sonne catching Jaybirds: the sume of one sailing twpopenc,'' Dec. 16, 1661. He was a volunteer in King Philip's War and received pay for services from Jan. 24 to Dec. 27, 1676; constable in 1685, 1686, and 1698. Is first mentioned on the records as sergeant, Aug. 5, 1696 ; as captain, March 4, 1700. Daniel was first elected selectman Jan. 6, 1689-90, and served also in 1693, 1695, 1696, 1697, 1700, 1701, and two years more; was representative 1700 to 1704, and 1712 and 1713. On Jan. 23, 1681, Dedham " Granted to Daniell Fisher timber upon the Town Commons to make Boards to Finish his house." Later he inherited the homestead of his father where the rest of his life was spent.

      John Fairbanks, an enterprising explorer, informed the selectmen of Dedham of some good land twelve miles from Had- ley; and he, with Lieut. Daniel Fisher, was sent out to find it. They returned withthe report of good land. This was Pocumtuck (Deerfield). It was probably through his intervention, that, at a later date, his sister Lydia was selected to become the confidential attendant of Goffe and Whalley, the regicides, when they were concealed in the house of the Rev. Mr. Russell at Hadley. He had often occasion to pass through Hadley on his way to Deerfield. It was this Daniel Fisher of whom the familiar story has been told, of leading Sir Edmund Andros through the streets of Boston, April 19, 1689. " Daniel Fisher had not forgotten the proscription of his father. He was a stout, athletic man of a resolute spirit. When the news of the tumult of the 18th of April reached Dedham, Captain Fisher instantly set off for Boston, and came rushing in with the country people, who were in such a rage and heat as made all tremble again. Nothing would satisfy the country party but binding the Governor with cords, and carrying him to a safer place. Soon was Captain Fisher seen among the crowd, leading the pale and trembling Sir Edmund by the collar of his coat from the house of Mr. Usher back to Fort Hill." (Haven's Centenial Address at Dedham, pp. 42 and 76, etc.)

      Captain Daniel d. on the homestead in Dedham, Nov. 17, 1713. His grave is marked by stones in the Parish burial ground. His widow d. March 19,1726. Of her the Rev. Samuel Dexter wrote in his diary : " March 19th 1726. This Day dyed Mrs. Mary Fisher, in ye 72d Year of her Age. She dyed in a good old age . . . She was of a Weakly Constitution, & had gone thro' a great deal of weakness. She had beenConfined abt 3 weeks before she dyed but one Week of ye time to her bed. She was a woman of a good Character. She had obtain'd a good report of all men, & of ye Truth itself a hearty Lover of ye Truth & ye sincere profession of it a Careful & Tender Parent to her Children - a good friend to C Ministers, & particularly to one y was Unworthy of her Love." (New England Historic- Genealogical Reg., XIV, 108.)

      The will of Daniel Fisher (Suffolk Pro., vol. 18, fol. 137), made Sept. 15, 1713, gave the homestead in Dedham to his son, Jeremiah, after his wife's death, she in the meantime to have the use and improvement of it. The homestead then consisted of a dwelling house, mill house, barn, yards, gardens, orchards, pasture and woodland. To son Daniel he gave land in Clapboardtrees and meadow in Fowl meadows in Dorchester ; to Nathaniel, £150 ; to daughter Mary Huntington, £100; to daughter Margaret Gay, £10, and £40 "at such times as she shall happen to be a widow ; " to daughter Abigail, £50 ; and the personal property, to Jeremiah, two-thirds, and David, one-third. Children, b. in Dedham, were :

      61A. Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1676 ; d. April 30, 1752 ; m. John Hunting, of Needham, February 23, 1698. [Hunting Gen., p. 8.] 62. Jeremiah, b. June lo, 1679; m. Deborah Richards, Dec. 16, 1702.
      63. Danieil, b. Jan. 7, 1682 ; m. Esther Fisher, Nov. 25, 1703. Hannah*, b. Oct. 10, 1684; m. Jeremiah Richards, of Roxbury. [Richards Gen., p. 124.]
      64. NATHANIEL4, b. Apr1l 5, 1687 ; first minister to Dighton.
      MARGARET4,b. Feb. 28, 1690; d. Feb. 13, 1773 ; m. Nathaniel Gay, of Dedham, Feb. 28, 1690; he was a son of Nathaniel and Lydia Lusher (Starr) Gay, of Dedham. [N. E. Historic-Genealogical Register, XXXIII, 47.]
      Abigail, b. Sept. 27, 1694; d. Nov. 3, 1767; m. Captain Samuel Morse, of Medfield. [Tilden's Medfield, p. 441.]
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S236] The Fisher Genealogy Record of the Descendants of Joshua, Anthony, and Cornelius Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., 1630-1640, Philip A Fisher, (Name: Massachusetts Pub. Co., 1898;), 36 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S236] The Fisher Genealogy Record of the Descendants of Joshua, Anthony, and Cornelius Fisher, of Dedham, Mass., 1630-1640, Philip A Fisher, (Name: Massachusetts Pub. Co., 1898;), 37 (Reliability: 3).

  

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